Shane Hathaway wrote:
> I have a small mail server used by about a dozen family members. I'd
> like to set up a bayesian spam filter on the server and make it easy for
> users to train their personal filters. For a long while, I've wondered
> how to make the training easy, but today it finally hit me: just have
> the users put spam in a designated IMAP folder and "ham" in a different
> folder. Then re-train at night if the users have changed the ham or
> spam folders during the day.
>> Before I go off and do this, has anyone else tried the same thing? Was
> it effective and easy to use?
Yes, it works great. We use it on a LOT of servers. Another nice thing is
you can configure Thunderbird to send junk it detects (that SpamAssassin
doesn't catch) into that folder for nightly training.
Here's the nightly script we wrote to do this:
#!/bin/sh
for USER in `ls /home`
do
#look for a spam-mail file in $USER's mail directory
if [ -f /home/$USER/mail/spam-mail ]
then
echo "Checking spam for $USER ..."
su $USER -c "sa-learn --spam --mbox /home/$USER/mail/spam-mail"
cp /dev/null /home/$USER/mail/spam-mail
fi
done
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